Do you intend to throw away in one instant what our family has painstakingly built up?
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Painstakingly
//ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli//
Synonyms for "painstakingly" (28 found)
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Related words (14)
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18 translations across 6 languages.
French
2 entries- minutieusement adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- méticuleusement adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
Galician
1 entries- coidadosamente adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
Norwegian
1 entries- med pinlig nøyaktighet adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
Romanian
1 entries- migălos adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
Russian
4 entries- дото́шно adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- кропотли́во adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- приле́жно adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- тща́тельно adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
Spanish
4 entries- a raja tabla adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- a rajatabla adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- concienzudamente adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
- cuidadosamente adv (in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Tycho's painstakingly collected data was reduced by Kepler to become grist for the mill that ground out Newton's gravitational theory.
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He did his work painstakingly.
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I lost everything I had so painstakingly collected over the years.
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